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Pomet, Pierre (1658-1699) Le Marchand Sincère ou Traité General des Drogues Simples et Composées.
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1695.
Folio, large portrait of the author bound opposite title, title page printed in red and black with large engraved vignette; lacking two text leaves: Gg2 & Gg3 (pages 235/236 & 237/238), illustrated with 190 engravings, including text engravings showing each plant described in the text (sometimes more than one plant per plate), very large vignettes showing the production of sugar cane, indigo, and tobacco by enslaved people, also illustrations of ancient Egyptian embalming, beekeeping, silk production, whaling, and a crew working on a giant tuna; in the section on animals, illustrations of elephant, rhinoceros, lizards, mammals, unicorns, sea turtles, and others; bottom outside corner of page 47/48 torn away with loss of the final words on the last three lines; top outside corner of page 119/120 with loss of about ten words; leaf 255/256 torn horizontally without loss; with a later supplement bound after the privilege leaf, Remarques tres-curieuses sur plusieurs vegetaux, animaux, mineraux, & autres, que j'ai oublié d'inserer dans la premiere impression, with Americana content and illustrated with five small engravings on separate sheets; bound in full contemporary French calf-covered boards, worn, joints cracked, patch repair to spine, 15 1/2 x 10 in.
